Sorry for the delay. I promised you guys that I would give you more LinkedIn advice and show you some of my LinkedIn messages. So let’s do that. So this is the message I sent to who ended up being my boss at title. And this is how I got the job. I did not have a connection there.
Obviously, having this a good job already on my resume helped, of course, and having a good resume, but I messaged blindly. I said, hi, came across your post about the Partnership Marketing Coordinator and I’m very interested. Good and learning more about this position.
I currently work at Bravo and oxygen on the PR team. I also assist the SVP and BP of communications. I’ve been wanting to learn about partnerships and experiential because this was not in my realm. I had a PR job and this job was for partnership marketing. So I didn’t have experience in that. I saw the position come up, which I think I would be a great fit for. I’ve only been at bravo a little over a year, but have a lot of internship experience in events, marketing and PR. I have a passion for music as well because I no music experience. Please let me know if you have any time to chat. Thank you so much.
And we set up a call right away. Again, I said this before, usually I would not message saying like, I care about, I want this job, like help me because I, but because this job was posted and she was basically saying message me. It was a little bit of a different scenario. But usually I would ask that person to set up a call and you wanna hear about their career experience and like their journey. People love to talk about themselves that you don’t wanna just say, hey, get me a job at your company. They don’t want that.
This is another example. I felt like it was really helpful when I looked up different companies I want to work with. For some reason I always want to work at Sony Music. I was obsessed like with. So if you go to LinkedIn, you can go see alumni that work at, let’s say, Sony Music that went to your school. And I feel like people get really excited when they love the school. They went to talk to other alumni and I would, I felt like that really worked for me a lot when I would message people that, let’s say, like worked at Hurst, Sony Music, like anywhere I was interested in bravo TV and they went to university Bellward, even if it was 20 years before me, they always wanted to set up a call and like chat about it because they were just like, oh, we have something in common.
This is a real, oh, why am I so close? No idea what I did to my face. I’m dying. Okay. But this is a very good example of what I was talking about. This is the same person. I messaged her twice. The first time she literally didn’t wanna help me because of the way I messaged. The second time she did. So when I first message, I said, hey, my name is Remy.
I recently applied for the communications assistant position at Hurst. And that was posted a few days ago. She did not post this position and had nothing to do with her. I just saw that she worked in communications, but she didn’t post this position. So why am I saying this to her? I had a current employee send over my resume, but I would love to hear more about the position. Thank you so much. She literally doesn’t even work on that team. So she said, I thought she did. So she said, hi, Remy, have no details on the position. Best of luck. And I was really like, taking back, I’m like, oh wow, she really doesn’t wanna help. But then when I was basically like desperate, a month later could not find a job, I was like freaking out. I’m like, I’m gonna do whatever it takes.
I reached out to the same person, but instead I didn’t ask about a specific role. I asked about connecting with her to learn about her experience and asking if we could just like hop on a call so I can learn about her experience at hers, in her career path when I met up with her in person, she literally told me it was about the way I asked. And that always stuck with me. She said that it was always because the first time, like you’re just asking about a job, like it’s just like it’s a little impersonal. But when you’re asking to really just like you really want help, you really care to learn and you wanna learn about that person. She told me people love to talk about themselves and they will usually say, yes, you’re gonna let get a lot of people that ghost you, but there’s gonna be someone, even if you message 100 people, I used to message thousands of people, someone will get back to you. And this was her response when I sent that other message. How different is it from the other one? Thanks for reaching out. I’d be so happy to chat with you about my past experiences and what led me to where I am now. Are you in new s New York City? Would be happy to meet up for coffee. Like even if you make these connections and a job doesn’t come out of it, you never know where that person is gonna be. And these days, everyone switches around companies like every year. So they could be at a company that would be somewhat beneficial to you years later, or you might just like run into each other again. And even if you don’t get a job out of connecting with people on LinkedIn, it’s just so important. And that’s why when like friends and stuff are just like, please help me get a job.
I’m like, well, did you try like, are you messaging people on LinkedIn? Are you getting coffee? Are you trying to do like informational? I would call them where you’re, I feel very passionate about this because I feel like I’ve used LinkedIn for years to kind of get to where I want to be. Also, what am I saying? I did use LinkedIn to my advantage when I no longer was in, you know, the normal 9 to 5, obviously my job is not normal now. What I did was actually.